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This has been my experience as well. Grew up speaking English and French, am 100% bilingual, could not tell you which I think in. I think thoughts occur at a le
by jvrossb 15y ago
This has been my experience as well. Grew up speaking English and French, am 100% bilingual, could not tell you which I think in. I think thoughts occur at a level of abstraction one step above language.
When I started learning Chinese I also wasn't constantly translating, I just had a limited breadth and depth of topics in which could express my thoughts through Chinese.
- Shenglong 15y agoI'm not talking about basic thoughts. I mean, when you trace logic in your head, one language or another appears.
- visarga 15y agoThis is a useful test: do a multiplication, say... 12*15, in your head. In what language did you do it? Usually we tend to revert to the primary language for math.